Mary Whitfield in Birmingham, AL
May 31 – November 23, 2019
Birmingham native artist Mary Frances Whitfield will have her first solo exhibit in the city. The self-taught artist, whose work is currently on display at the Phyllis Stigliano Gallery in New York, will present a series of paintings called “Why?” The paintings depict the racial terror of lynchings against black people in the South. Developed as a collaboration with the Jefferson County Memorial Project, the paintings will be displayed at UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA) and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts
1221 10th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35205
www.uab.edu/news/arts
London's Light and Dark
Chris Bird
until June 28, 2019
The Arts Project, in collaboration with Portugal Prints, presents a mixed media art exhibition, including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and installation art. Artists, both trained and self-taught, interpret the title and theme of the exhibition, London’s Light and Dark by sharing their personal feelings and experience of London through creative expression.
Portugal Prints is part of the charity BWW Mind and are based in Camden Town’s Arlington House. For 40 years they have helped vulnerable people cope with life and living though structured and focused art workshops, providing a safe and supportive community.
The Conference Centre, St Pancras
Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, London NW1 0PE
www.facebook.com/theartsproject1
Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery
Samaneh Atef
until June 29, 2019
Contrasting works by Iranian Samaneh Atef and Danish Hans Kragh-Jacobsen are currently being shown at Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery in an exhibition titled "+5".
Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery
Gl. Kongevej 35A, 1610 Copenhagen V, Denmark
COAG.DK
Galerie Polysémie, Marseille
Mahmoodkhan
"L'art brut après Jean Dubuffet" features works by a selection of outsider artists.
Galerie Polysémie
12 rue de la Cathédrale 13002 Marseille, France
www.polysemie.com
European Outsider Art Association Conference 2019
Becca Hoffman addressing the audience
Jan Erik Svennberg, Little Istanbul
From May 24–26, the yearly EOA Conference was held, this time in Stockholm and Sala. Around 100 people attended; delegates came from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, Estonia, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Czech, Sweden and the USA.
The programme included performances, panel talks, environmental art, exhibitions and twelve lectures by artists and other experts on the topic of Quality and Equality, including: Thomas Röske (DE) ’Considerations on Quality and Equality in Outsider Art’ and Rebecca Hoffman (USA) ’Art Fairs: What goes into creating cultural events with a global reach’. Tanya Raabe-Webber (UK) had live portrait sittings under the title 'Portraits Untold'.
Nordic Outsider Craft curated by Minna Haveri and Elina Vuorimies (FI) and Travel Agency: Inner Journey runner by Mike Inglis (UK) and artists from Inuti had openings.
The 10th Anniversary of EOA was celebrated with live music by Kent Sidvall and an Argentinian DJ-duo who got everyone to dance!
Raw Vision 101 out now!
Issue 101 features:
COMPRESSORHEAD: Robot heavy metal band
WALKS TO THE PARADISE GARDEN: Excerpts from an important new book
DANIEL GONCALVES: Intricate drawings by self-taught Portuguese artist
RON MANN: Paintings by Vietnam veteran
HAFIZ ADEM: Sudanese artist’s story of fleeing his country
J.B. MURRAY: Decoding Murray’s visionary art
MARK BEYER: Beyer’s own interpretation of his mysterious works
CURZIO DI GIOVANNI: A different view of glossy magazine images
Raw Vision Short Film Competition
Below is Pier Nello Manoni's entry into the 2019 Raw Vision short film competition.
Fernando Oreste Nannetti was born in Rome, of an unknown father. After finishing primary school the young boy was put into a charitable institution and at the age of ten was placed in a psychiatric hospital for minors.
In 1956 Nannetti was arrested for insulting a public official and that same year was confined to the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, in Tuscany.
Fernando Oreste Nannetti is the author of a written work cut into the stone walls of the Psychiatric Hospital in Volterra, Italy, where he was confined. He said he was in contact with electro-magnetic waves and so, day after day, he recorded that telepathically received information.
This monumental creation, the fruit of nine years’ work from 1959 to 1961, and 1968 to 1973, is seventy metres long and stretches across several of the institution’s courtyard walls.
Check out the rest of the short film competition entries here.